单词 | kernel sentence |
释义 | > as lemmaskernel sentence kernel sentence n. see quot. 1968 and 8b (ii) above. ΚΠ 1957 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. viii. 89 Both ‘the hunters shoot’ and ‘they shoot the hunters’ are kernel sentences. 1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics vi. 256 A kernel sentence..is any sentence which is generated from a single kernel string without the application of any optional transformations. 1972 Science 23 June 1304/1 The basic units of information in language are the ‘kernel sentences’—primitive nondecomposable sentences that can be modified and combined in various ways..to produce a very large number of different messages. kernel sentence (b) In full kernel sentence. In an early version of transformational grammar: a relatively simple sentence that results from the application of only a few (obligatory) transformations, and to which other sentences may be related by further transformations; a set of such sentences. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > sentence > specific types of clause?c1225 compound sentence1772 complex sentence1881 run-on1892 kernel1957 simplex1960 matrix sentence1964 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > change of word order or position > specifically in transformational grammar > structure derived from transform1955 kernel1957 1957 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. v. 45 We define the kernel of the language (in terms of the grammar G) as the set of sentences that are produced when we apply obligatory transformations to the terminal strings. 1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts 494 ‘Kernels’. This term is applied to stripped-down nucleuses. 1963 J. Lyons Struct. Semantics ii. 14 It appears that the kernel for English consists of simple, active, declarative sentences. 1969 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 25 Sentences of the form she is eager to please demand that the subject, but no other nominal, of their embedded kernels be deleted. 1969 Neuphilol. Mitt. LXX. 204 The oft-repeated claim that all ‘well-formed’ sentences of a language are derivable from a single syntactic kernel is clearly unfounded. < as lemmas |
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